All Entries in the "Brain & Nervous System" Category

RLS or Restless Legs Syndrome is a kind of neurological disorder which is characterized by an unpleasant sensation in the legs. Such sensations give out an uncontrollable urge to move while they are still. You feel that moving your feet will get rid of this unpleasantness that has gripped the feet. Sensations that arise from the RLS are described as – Burning Tugging Creeping Insects crawling feeling Such feelings are called paresthesias (or abnormal sensations) or the dysesthesias (or abnormal and unpleasant sensations). The sensations can get really annoying; they will first cause irritation and then get painful. Most paradoxical aspect of such a condition are the symptoms of restlessness which hit hard when you are sitting down or lying down for relaxing. A lot of people  [...]

The rates of brain cancer survival are defined in the medical terms as percentage of the people with certain type and stage of the brain cancer who are surviving the disease for specific period after the diagnosis. Surviving of brain cancer is a different story for different people. There are renditions which might warm your heart and there are others which might shake you up totally. However, it is important to remember that the survival depends on a lot of factors like The brain cancer type Location of the brain cancer Tumor size Cancer grade Overall general patient’s health and the immunity levels The relative rates of survival There are different methods used for calculating rates for the different purposes. Relative survival rate considers percentage of patients that  [...]

Concussion is a brain injury which occurs due to accident directly to the head. During such accidents, the brain of the patient wobbles inside the skull and this leads to swelling and bruising of the brain tissues. Child can get concussion if they have had any accidents while playing any outdoor games or while running in the park. If any child has had any such accidents involving the head then he should see a doctor immediately. There are various symptoms of concussion in children and I am blogging about them here – Fatigue Concussion can cause trauma to the brain of the patient. When the head goes through any accidents, then the brain tissues swell and the pressure inside too increases. Signals are then sent by the brain to slow down in order to hasten the healing process. Thus the patient  [...]

ADHD (Attention deficit disorder) is a condition that affects adults & kids though it could be frequently unidentified in infancy. For those identified with childhood ADHD there is a likelihood of that person carrying a number of symptoms into later years. However, those not identified with this disorder does not necessarily translate to the fact that he/she wouldn’t be affected in adulthood. Several fallacies abound regarding ADHD in adults such as: Fallacy - ADHD is simply deficit of will-power and those having this disorder pay attention to matters that they find interesting and could do the same for other activities as well in case the person is truly keen on it. Truth - Though ADHD resembles will-power issue it is actually just a chemical issue in managing system of the brains. Fallacy  [...]

Antidepressants facts Patient populaces are looking for express fixes. Societies also want patients to be given express fixes so that quick returning to their normal performances at vocation and homes are possible. Many patients are shameful of getting assistance from psychiatrists or other mental health experts. Hence, they request aid for treating their depression from their general practitioners who feel the pressure emotionally of providing swift fixes in the brief fifteen minutes lasting appointments – the analogous pressures they respond to when belting out prescription antibiotic medicines to passably shrill wheels of patients complaining of common cold. In case doctors do discuss with the patients regarding treatment, they recoil at the outlay (time & endeavour if not the  [...]

For spotting elderly patients with preliminary signs & symptoms of Alzheimer’s disease, physicians would gain greater ground seeking consultation with the specialists – specifically the kin and buddies best knowing the patients. As per a latest trial, when kin or pals of the person were asked for completing a 2-minute opinion poll they could spot those with preliminary indications of Alzheimer’s disease with greater accuracy as compared to the prevalently employed conventional screening test. The test dubbed as AD8 ( Ascertain Dementia 8 ) is a narrow-down of 8 queries asking kin relatives or pals in case they have spotted any variation in the below mentioned quarters: Judgement-related issues like bad monetary decision-making. Lesser interests in hobby & other activity. Repetitively  [...]

Insomnia has managed to reach endemic magnitudes and continues to escalate, with over a third people from the United States having sleeping problems. Homeopathy could offer respite from sleeplessness using several cures. Though such innate homeopathic cures are obtainable as OTC (over-the-counter) medicines however to garner optimal outcomes it is always advisable to seek consultation of an experienced homeopath. Aconitum napellus A cure for those panicking with sleeplessness. When the individual drifts off to slumber, feelings like fright and anxiety could arise abruptly which might wake the person up. Arsenicum album This remedy is ideal for those individuals suffering from anxiousness and compulsiveness regarding finer details and face issues trying to fall asleep in case they don’t  [...]

Autistic kids mostly exhibit particular behavioural patterns in the manner they converse with those around. If identification of such patterns is possible it could be employed as an early indication of autism. However, collection of sufficient amount of information is necessary to facilitate identification. LENA is a handy recorder which could provide information of an entire day of a kid’s interaction which would help experts in closely reviewing it. LENA is the sole technology that does automatic collection and analysis of data regarding a child’s innate language environment and growth. The feedbacks provided by LENA enable parents in improving the aggregate speech experience and hasten the kid’s speech and cognitive growth and readiness for school. LENA is ideal for parents, caretakers  [...]

A global teamwork of scientists is presently at work honing a novel DBS (deep brain stimulation) technology which might be capable of addressing a number of inadequacies in the presently obtainable devices. If things go as planned, brain implants would imminently be seen as a feasible and prevalent treatment for several conditions like depression, age-associated brain agility loss, Parkinson’s disease among many others. The new-fangled technology is dubbed – ReNaChip (Rehabilitation Nano Chip) is a biomimetic chip which would possess supervision skills to assist in regulating electrical signals application to the brain, a skill which is absent in the present deep brain stimulation devices. The wiring of ReNaChip could be done to computer applications and brain sensors, tweaking shortfalls  [...]

The typically employed analytic criteria in case of ADHD include the most prevalently occurring symptoms that have been cited on the basis of how the disorder would show itself in kids. However, several experts believe that adult ADHD symptoms have a tendency of manifesting themselves in a different and subtle manner that makes it trickier in recognizing and diagnosing adult attention deficit hyperactivity disorder. Ten prevalent adult ADHD symptoms are explicated below. In individuals having ADHD, the bigger tasks of being an adult like bill payment, job and kids, citing some of them - could make issues with being organized more apparent and increasingly detrimental as compared to infancy. Even as several of the ADHD symptoms are far more infuriating to others than the affected individual,  [...]

A sensation of blood striking the sensitive sheath of the brain could give an individual the most debilitating headache ever, according to physicians. This was precisely what transpires in subarachnoid hemorrhage and what reality luminary and songster Bret Michaels would have experienced prior to being whisked off into the ER. Eyewitnesses making revelations to the famed glossy ‘People’ stated that Michael expressed it similar to be being thumped on the head repeatedly by a baseball bat and the pain felt similar to a migraine compounded ten folds. In the case of subarachnoid hemorrhage, bleeding starts into the gap in-between the affected person’s brain and its translucent, web-similar tissue casing (also location of spinal fluid). Physicians continue to probe the reason behind  [...]

Chiari Malformation is a development-related flaw wherein the brain’s lower section known as the cerebellum is constricted into the gap of the upper portion of spinal cord. Chiari Malformation is a consequence of the skull portion (which contains the cerebellum) being quite small-sized or having deformation which exerts pressure on and swarms the brain. There are 4 generalized forms of this condition with the most prevalent ones being assigned as Chiari malformation type I and type II. Diagnosis of Chiari Malformation: Diagnosis of Chiari malformation type I usually occur due to symptoms arising in late infancy or even in later life. It is at times non-symptomatic and is often discovered inadvertently during a CAT scan which was conducted for some other reason. People who are asymptomatic  [...]